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Georgia's Role in Euro-Atlantic Security 59
with the Abkhaz sep a rat ists in order to reach a con sen sus on how best to set tle the con flict within the
inter na tion ally rec og nized bor ders of Geor gia. As per our Pres i dent Saakashvili’s peace plan, any set tle -
ment would be inter na tion ally guar an teed to pro vide as wide auton omy as pos si ble for Abkhazia and to
ensure the rein te gra tion of the Abkhaz community into the unified Georgian state.
Finally, aggres sion against Geor gia is a log i cal link in the chain, and we must not be blind to it: the mur -
der of Litvinenko in the heart of Lon don, the impo si tion of an eco nomic embargo on Poland, the
cyber-attack against Esto nia, Pres i dent Putin’s speech in Munich and his state ment in the NATO-Rus sia
Coun cil about Ukraine’s state hood, energy black mail ing of the West, and so on. The Euro-Atlan tic com -
mu nity is capa ble of pre vent ing fur ther devel op ments like these, but to do so it is nec es sary to develop a
com mon con struc tive strat egy. Now is the moment of truth—no mat ter how dif fi cult it might be, we
need to dem on strate how united and effec tive we can be in resolv ing global secu rity chal lenges and
defend ing our common values and principles.